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Lugging around his Rolleiflex camera, the short, stocky Diaz sported around town in a flashy Cadillac and befriended dozens of Mexican and U.S. Latino celebrities and community leaders, including a young Cesar Chavez. Diaz was a regular contributor to El Excentrico, a bilingual magazine published from 1948 to 1991. Its heyday may have been in the 1950s and ’60s. “This magazine was the only organ out there informing Latinos about their politics, culture and community,” said Gregorio Mora-Torres, a history professor at San Jose State.

Bert Garcia, a former publisher of the magazine, described Diaz as a gifted self-taught photographer whose mission was to document Latino culture, “His training really was empirical experience,” Garcia said, “He sparkled in the limelight of photography, I think that was his passion, He loved the social aspect, loved the dances and the music, And the stars and people loved him, They would light up.”, Diaz mounted a few photos on the walls of the house and darkroom, but most are tacked on willy-nilly, For example, there’s a photo of John F, Kennedy stumping in East San Jose on a wall with a photo of opponent Richard Nixon, singer Ray Charles and Mexican superstars Maria Felix, Vicente Fernandez, Lucha Villa, Yolanda del Rio and 925 sterling silver, ballet shoe charm, european charm , pizza charm, european bead, fits snake chain bracelet Juan Gabriel..

Sitting in stacks or stuffed into boxes are photos or negatives of Ronald Reagan, The Supremes, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Harry James, La India Maria, Gregory Peck and Tex-Mex stars Selena, Little Joe and Flaco Jimenez. Sprinkled all around, and probably of more interest to Latino and San Jose historians, are photos of ordinary Latino residents at the old Starlight and Rainbow ballrooms, teenage beauty contests and banquets. Ramon Ward, the photographer’s grandson, said Diaz was able to get backstage and develop a rapport with the stars because he captured them early in their careers, when San Jose was a musical outpost. One photo shows a young Juan Gabriel, a megastar today, hosting bar at Diaz’s house. In another, Diaz captured a young and trim Celia Cruz onstage before she became the most famous salsa music diva of all time.

Diaz had something of a photojournalist side, too, Ward produced a Diaz photo of a youngish, smiling Chavez holding up a United Farm Workers union placard, Diaz also captured the groundbreaking ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in East San Jose, which today has become a staging point for the immigrant rights movement, Ward plans to digitize and catalog his grandfather’s body of work, Mora-Torres 925 sterling silver, ballet shoe charm, european charm , pizza charm, european bead, fits snake chain bracelet and San Jose State’s Chicano studies program would like to include some of them in historical exhibits, However, that won’t be easy because Diaz didn’t have a system for storing his photos or negatives, In most cases, he didn’t even write down the names of his subjects on the prints..

“I’m too young to know who a lot of these people were,” said Ward, 43. Diaz was born on May 15, 1920, in Calipatria, a small farming town in Southern California. According to Elvira Diaz, his neighbor at the time, Diaz’s father was shot to death in a case of mistaken identity. Desperately poor, Diaz went to work in the fields when he was 12 and never attended high school. He was 20 and she was 15 when they drove to Arizona, where she was legally old enough to get married. Diaz was drafted into the Army during World War II, but the war ended before he could be shipped out.

Angela Diaz Otten, the couple’s adopted daughter, said a sergeant noticed that Diaz was a “quick study” and encouraged him to attend a trade school in plumbing in Stockton, They moved to San 925 sterling silver, ballet shoe charm, european charm , pizza charm, european bead, fits snake chain bracelet Jose when back problems, probably from his field worker days, forced him to seek regular medical treatment in the Bay Area, Elvira Diaz said her husband starting taking photos as a teenager — he snapped a picture of her posing with child television star Jerry Mathers of “Leave It To Beaver” fame, Soon after moving to San Jose, Diaz got his start taking pictures of auto accidents and disasters but then turned his attention to the stars who came to San Jose, his widow said..

The late Humberto Garcia, founder of El Excentrico, invited Diaz to start a photographic column, which became a community favorite. He later contributed to El Avisador entertainment magazine and community papers. His widow said Diaz made pocket money shooting weddings, baptisms and formal events and conferences sponsored by local Latino groups, including the American G.I. Forum and Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He photographed many local politicians, including former San Jose Mayors Susan Hammer and Norman Mineta, at these events.

Remarkably, according to 925 sterling silver, ballet shoe charm, european charm , pizza charm, european bead, fits snake chain bracelet Elvira Diaz, he hobnobbed with the stars without ever downing an ounce of liquor or smoking a cigarette or cigar, Sometimes, Mexican divas wearing thick red, lipstick gave him big smooches on the cheek, “No, I never got jealous,” his widow said with a laugh, adding that he likely would have become a professional photographer in today’s world, “He had a good life, He accomplished what he wanted and never complained, I always admired him for that.”..

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